Tab Completion and Typical Behavior

[robert_neville310@yahoo.com]

On Tue, 20 Mar 2007 10:13:59 -0500, Matthew Woehlke
<mw_triad@users.sourceforge.net> wrote:

>robert_neville310@yahoo.com wrote:
>> I have a question about tab completion in the console window. The
>> .bash_profile exports the right paths and the console performs tab
>> completion. My scripts can be found in ~/bin. I can tab out
>> myscript.sh, but can not tab complete ./myscript.sh; or sh
>> myscript.sh. Is this behavior normal? Can I change the console
>> behavior to tab out ./myscript.sh?
>
>...are you in ~/bin when you try to tab-complete ./myscript.sh? If you 
 Script lives in /home/username/bin/myscript.sh

~/bin $ ./myscript<tab completes>
~ $ ~/bin/myscript<tab completes>
~ $ .~/bin/myscript<DOES NOT complete>

#Without using the complete -c sh
~ $ sh myscript<DOES NOT complete>

cygdrive/g/ $ ./myscript<DOES NOT complete>
cygdrive/g/ $ ~/bin/myscript<tab completes>

>are in ~, then the path would be bin/myscript.sh, not ./myscript.sh. 
>(Does trying to complete the full path (~/bin/myscript.sh) work?)


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